With a smile that was more bared teeth than sweet lips, Vuk glared at every wolf, bear, cat, and whatever that fawned over his mate's hand. They said smile. He was smiling. It wasn’t his fault if the other shifters took his toothy smile as a threat. And he wasn't looming… definitely wasn’t appearing intimidating at a party he was hosting. Nope. Vuk was just... practicing perfect posture. That growl was simply clearing his throat.
Adrik tired of having his butt pinched by the bear has shifted into the Firebird. And while Vuk has saved the bear [and the resulting paperwork], it doesn't look like he's going to save the drapes.
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With a cry, the Firebird rose, hovering above the awed crowd. Opening his mouth, he directed a huge stream of flames at the French doors, bouncing on the glass and catching the curtains alight.
“Fuck, babe, you could’ve let me open the door first.” Vuk was running, grabbing the first thing that came to hand. The punch bowl was more than half full. This’d better be enough. Vuk threw the contents at the curtains. Fuck, I hope there was no booze in that. And he scored a direct hit. There was a sizzle, and the flames died out.
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"Oh, for... It's that damn peacock. Wait a minute, those are my tree frogs he's eating. First, he cusses at me and now he's eating my tree frogs? And that’s my mouse he's stalking." His napkin landed on the table. "I don't go over to his house and eat his frogs and mice."
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“Adrik, no.” Vuk could see the bird’s intent before it happened. The way the bird puffed up, the intensity of the flames getting brighter. In a few quick seconds, Mikhail’s body was going to resemble Adrik’s tux. “You can’t go burning visiting dignitaries.”
“In his defense,” the man standing next to Vuk casually said, “Mikhail was insulting you, and your mating, and he pinched your mate’s ass.”
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Standing in his shirt sleeves, Vuk gave him a big smile. “I see you are back. Your bird ate so much, I had to carry him to bed.”
“Frogs?”
“Mainly.”
“Gods… I hate frogs and don’t tell me what the rest was. He’s got an appetite like a billy goat on Prednisone.”
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